Here are three kegs of small nails, besides two
bags of large, and there are several axes, hammers, and other tools,
besides hanks of twine, sailing needles, and bees'-wax."
"They are indeed valuable, Ready."
"Here's some more of my plunder, as the Americans say. All these are
wash-deck buckets, this a small harness cask for salting meat, and
here's the cook's wooden trough for making bread, which will please
Miss Juno; and in it, you see, I have put all the galley-hooks, ladles,
and spoons, and the iron trivets, and here's two lamps. I think I put
some cotton wicks somewhere - I know I did; we shall find them by and
by. Here's the two casks, one of cartridges made up, and the other of
gunpowder, and the other six muskets."
"These are really treasures, Ready, and yet how well we have done
without them."
"Very true, sir, but we shall do better with them, and when we fit up
the storehouse for a dwelling, Mr. Seagrave, we shall be able to make
it a little more comfortable in every respect than the present one; for
you see there, all the fir-planking and deals, which William and I
buried in the sand."
"I really had quite forgotten them, Ready.
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